Frightfest 2023 – CINEWORLD SCREEN 1 (43)
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DISCOVERY SCREEN 3
13:45 EIGHT EYES (International Premiere)
Director: Austin Jennings. With: Emily Sweet, Bradford Thomas, Bruno Veljanovski. USA 2023. 86 mins.
A mysterious local crashes a couple’s vacation through the former Yugoslavia, pulling them deeper into his web of psychic rituals in this unique shocker drawing equally from Eastern European genre cinema and American regional horrors of the 1970s. Best known for creating and producing the acclaimed Shudder original series ‘The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs’, director Austin Jennings brings his love of the history of exploitation cinema and a passion for character-driven storytelling paired with tense and visceral psychological horror to this nightmarish tableau of nostalgia twisted into berserk, new shapes.
16:00 THE WEIRD KIDZ (European Premiere)
Director: Zach Passero. With: Sean Bridgers, Ellar Coltrane, Angela Bettis, Brian Ceely. USA 2023. 80 mins.
Dug, Mel, and Fatt are 12-year-old boys navigating life in their desert suburb. Dug’s older brother Wyatt takes the trio on a camping trip to a canyon with his new, awesome girlfriend Mary. She doesn’t go unnoticed by Mel and Fatt, who have just descended into puberty. Late bloomer Dug just dreams of smores and ghost stories. On a pit stop, the gas station attendant shares tales of ‘The Night Child’, an ancient creature that feeds on tourists. Equal parts adventure movie, coming of age story, urban legend and horror film all wrapped up in a comedic animated package.
18:25 THE KNOCKING (UK Premiere)
Directors: Joonas Pajunen, Max Seeck. With: Inka Kallén, Saana Koivisto, Olga Temonen, Mikko Leppilampi. Finland 2022. 87 mins.
Mikko, Maria and Matilda are siblings who haven’t been close or seen each other for years. However they must now decide what to do with their childhood home where their parents were allegedly murdered. The plan is to get the house and surrounding forest estate ready to be sold. But old traumas quickly resurface and there may be something evil lurking in the woods desperately trying to prevent the sale. Inspired by old Finnish myths about woodland spirits, the debut feature from directors Jonaas Pajunen and Max Seeck takes family drama and damaged relationships into new threatening realms of horror.
20:35 THE GHOST STATION (UK Premiere)
Director: Yong-ki Jeong. With: Bo-ra Kim, Jae Hyun Kim, Shin So-yul. South Korea 2022. 80 mins.
Horang’s notorious webtoon, which inspired the ‘Oksu Station ghost syndrome’, is now a major horror chiller. Directed by Yong-ki Jeong (THE DOLL MASTER, 2004) and co-written by Takahashi Hiroshi (THE RING, 1998), a public service worker at Oksu Station witnesses a shocking incident and recruits his friend to help uncover the truth behind the station’s mysterious happenings first reported on by a journalist trying to make sense of a murder case. Could the location of the station be the key to the numerous strange events occurring in a fright night hybrid of Korean and Japanese eerie atmospherics.
SATURDAY AUGUST 26
10:05 PAUL’S PODCAST
13:00 COBWEB (CLOSED CAPTION SCREENING)
15:25 HOSTILE DIMENSIONS (World Premiere)
Director: Graham Hughes. With: Graham Hughes, Stephen Beavis, Annabel Logan, Andy Stewart. UK 2023. 80 mins.
Scottish filmmaker Graham Hughes follows his well-received FrightFest 2019 audience favorite DEATH OF A VLOGGER with a fun and twisted multi-verse thriller. Two documentary filmmakers traverse alternate dimensions, confronting nightmares to uncover the truth behind a graffiti artist’s disappearance who seems to have vanished into thin air. These dimensions mix the ordinary with the bizarre – a hilly idyll is thrown off kilter by whales floating across the skies. Hughes describes his sophomore feature as a “Tribute to highly imaginative low-budget films combining found footage with epic sci-fi to create something unique and thrilling”.
18:00 MINORE (European Premiere)
Director: Konstantinos Koutsoliotas. With: Davide Tucci, Efi Papatheodorou, Daphne Alexander, Appolon Bollas. Greece 2023. 80 mins.
On a steamy summer night at the Greek seaside, full of music, dancing and delicious taverna food, a sudden mist descends and strange creatures start to plague the city, attacking people and drawing others into the sea with horrific dreams. A group of musicians join forces with a lost sailor in search of his wayward Greek father, along with a waitress, a bodybuilder, their grandmother, some local criminals and an undead priest to fight back against the otherworldly invaders. Can they save their city from intergalactic attack? The Greeks have words for it in this quirky action comedy fantasy.
20:10 1982: THE GREATEST GEEK YEAR EVER! (UK Premiere)
Director: Roger Lay Jr. With: Mick Garris, Barry Bostwick, Adrienne Barbeau, David L. Snyder. USA 2022. 140 mins.
Not just a documentary, more a fabulous time machine back to one of the greatest years in movie history for the biggest blockbusters, cult unforgettables and when genre fandom was in its infancy. Filled with exclusive interviews, rare behind-the-scenes photos and never before seen clips, this celebration of seminal and influential genre classics is a fun, lively, no-holds-barred look at BLADE RUNNER, E.T. – THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, John Carpenter’s THE THING, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, THE ROAD WARRIOR, TRON, POLTERGEIST, THE DARK CRYSTAL, FIREFOX, FIRST BLOOD, CREEPSHOW, MEGAFORCE and many, many more
SUNDAY AUGUST 27
13: 40 THE WEIRD KIDZ 16:00 THE KNOCKING 20:45 THE GHOST STATION 20:55 EIGHT EYESMONDAY AUGUST 28 13:20 HOSTILE DIMENSIONS 15:50 MINORE
18:20 THE DARKSIDE OF SOCIETY (World Premiere)
Director: Larry Wade Carrell. With: Julian Sands, Brian Yuzna, Screaming Mad George, Richard Stanley. USA 2022. 80 mins. It’s one of the most controversial, influential and groundbreaking horror satires of the 1980s. Brian Yuzna’s SOCIETY told with a terrifying surreality what the rich were doing to the poor in shocking, sexual detail. But did you know it was based on truth and took inspiration from the satanic ritual abuse carried out by the Beverly Hills elite Keith family? Or that son Woody Keith changed his name to Zeph E. Daniel and co-scripted SOCIETY to exorcise the demons from his violent youth? This is the full appalling story of how Daniel’s autobiography became a classic chiller for the ages.
